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52 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2008 10:57AM

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Comment author: wallowinmaya 23 May 2011 03:00:36PM 4 points [-]

The great mathematician Erdös used it, too. Maybe Eliezer should give it a try ;) From Wikipedia:

After 1971 Erdös also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[12] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use.